Snow plow driver finds pups lost in the snow in Perth Amboy

PERTH AMBOY - Two 3-month-old pit bull puppies that got loose sometime in the night during the snowstorm were rescued by a snow plow driver who spotted them at the end of his shift early this morning and chased them down.

Alexandra Pais/New Jersey Local News ServicMaria Benitez plays with Sheila, as Eliezer Davila plays with Pinta as their daughter Eliany Davila, 4, watches tv after the dogs safe return home from the snow storm in Perth Amboy on State Street.

Police kept them at headquarters until their owners were located.

According to Paul Wnek, director of public works, after plowing city streets all night, a driver saw five dogs running loose on State Street around 5:30 a.m.

The concerned driver, Joseph Nemeth, slammed on his brakes, then began tracking them in his truck. He called out to them, but while they wagged their tails, they
were not about be captured and continued to run in the snow.

Three of the dogs--a small brown dog, a small white dog, and a larger grey dog-- ran away but the two puppies got tired and slowed down, said Nemeth.

With the help of two city snow plow drivers that Nemeth had radioed for help, Hector Polidura and Joseph Ruiz, they were able to grab the pit-bull puppies. The police said they would search for the other dogs, said Wnek.

"It was snowing really, really hard," said Nemeth. "I didn't want them to get hit by a car because it was so slippery outside."

The dogs were transferred into police squad cars and taken to police headquarters, where they were later picked up by the owner, Eliezer Davila, around 9 a.m. Davila said his dogs, Pinta and Sheila, escaped overnight after the wind blew open an outside gate. The other dogs, he said, were not his.

Davila, who lives on Lynd Street, noticed Pinta and Sheila were missing around 7:30 a.m., and scoured the neighborhood in search for them before he called police, who told him the dogs were safe. Davila, 32, was grateful the plowers took the time to pick up his dogs.